Synopsis:
The nephews have turned into soap haters but Donald does not concur. Off to the bath...

Comments:
Cleanliness is one of the top priorities for any responsible parent, so Donald is distraught when his nephews suddenly are no longer compliant. But the nephews only adhere to their motto Always Alert to Save Our Dirt.
In WDCS184 'To Bathe or Not to Bathe' Donald has the similar problem; the nephews swear that they will never again tarnish their bodies with soap, and Donald commands them to take a much needed bath which they refuse vigorously. Parenthood is not easy...

Synopsis:
Donald is a lifeguard at the beach but his merits are overshadowed by the Junior Woodchucks' hound. He decides to get even by making it flunk a JW test.

Comments:
Donald is doing his cozy job as a lifeguard surprisingly well, but, not surprisingly, self-inflicted problems pile up, when he tries to meddle in. Soon he is in over his head...
In WDCS033 'The Lifeguard' Donald has to rescue his bathing nephews from a ferocious shark, and they also lure him with a fake one!

Synopsis:
The nephews and Donald enter a private swimming contest. But Donald plans to cheat by hindering the nephews.

Comments:
The nephews are tired of being forced to play the piano instead of being allowed to swim, so Donald promises that they will never have to play again - if they win! But he resorts to several dirty tricks such as pouring oil, wood shavings, and starch into their swimming path.
In WDCS071 'Dishonest Swimmers' the tables are turned as the nephews try to cheat to beat Donald in a swimming race.

Synopsis:
Gyro is ashamed that he has never learned to swim so he tries to invent himself out of the problem in order not to be forced to use his degrading water wings...

Comments:
Little Helper has a busy day rescuing Gyro from drowning in the pool several times, until Gyro finally gives in and starts using the water wings...
In WDCS129 'Swimming Pool Garden' Donald has a similar problem; he merely wants to swim unnoticed in his new pool, but the difference is that he is pestered by uninvited hordes of children, mothers, and dogs that completely take possession of his pool...

Synopsis:
Donald bets that he can bathe in the lake during winter and Gladstone bets that he can drink two gallons of lemonade in one hour. Will they ever learn?

Comments:
Donald will forfeit his house to Gladstone if he loses, but - thanks to Daisy - she has made the latter sign an agreement that he will give back the house if he loses! Donald manages to escape the bet without bathing at all...
The two cousins make yearly bets that neither of them are able to carry through. So, for next year Donald will climb into a barrel of ice water and sit in it for an hour, and Gladstone will drink five gallons of lemonade in half an hour...

Synopsis:
Donald wants a quiet vacation along with his nephews so he rents a houseboat on Lake Erie for the purpose.

Comments:
Several of Barks' stories, especially from the 1950s, may be taken as his eye-openers to the readers on how we treated the environment back then. In this story Donald and the nephews are having a quiet vacation on a houseboat on Lake Erie. At one point the nephews decide to have a swim but they are immediately deterred, when they find themselves covered in industrial waste created by factory discharges.
20 years later the waste problems had still not been solved, and Barks did yet another story about the lake; in HDL17 Be Leery of Lake Eerie he came with a much harsher and more direct attack on the problem.

Synopsis:
The nephews are going to try out for different JW merit badges at the millpond but then Donald decides to help them...

Comments:
Nephew Louie's task is to rescue an individual from drowning, and Donald is right at hand! Trouble is that Donald is not interested in being a dummy at all. Later in the story he makes a poorly constructed canoe, that immediately takes in water and sinks, and now Donald has to be rescued from the drink...

Synopsis:
Donald claims to be an expert on ice fishing but he immediately gets into trouble with a large fish. Perhaps dynamite is the solution?

Comments:
Donald is nearly killed on several occasions from lack of fresh air when he attempts to catch the fish in the freezing water. This also happened in WDCS294 Duck Out of Luck!
In WDCS142 'Fool-Proof Vacation' he went down Niagara Falls in a barrel, and in U$06 'Tralla La' and U$44 Crown of the Mayas all the ducks nearly drowned in treacherous whirlpools!

Synopsis:
Donald's family tries to discover what he wants for Christmas, because that is the only way for the nephews to get what they want...

Comments:
The times Scrooge bathed in his money are far too numerous to list! In this story he bathes in a tub (as he did in U$05 'Atlantis' and U$11 'Come-as-You-are-Party (1-pager)). In U$07 'Cibola' he even had a butler standing over him drizzling coins from a bucket onto his head!
In FC0386 Only a Poor Old Man Scrooge has hidden his money in a lake, but when he yearns for his daily dry-bath, he stacks the money up in a great pile in the middle of the lake in order not to get wet...

Synopsis:
Scrooge buys all the 1916 quarters in the world just to chuck them into the ocean. Except for one. It will be worth a fortune...

Comments:
In this story the ducks are bathing almost all of the time, because they dive deep down into the ocean to reside in the sunken continent of Atlantis!
In WDCS172 'Submarine Christmas', WDCS177 'The Bathysphere', and U$46 Lost Beneath the Sea the ducks use different diving spheres to roam the ocean floor, and in FC0495 'The Horse-radish Story' Donald spends most of the time diving for an indifferent case of horse-radish...